Category: Top Dog

I have a 9 week female cavapoo puppy for 2 days. She will not stop crying when she is in the pen until someone goes back to her. Her setup is a crate inside a playpen. I know that she is still settling, but is there any way I can try to stop this behavior? We ignore it as long as we can, but she just doesn't stop! Any help please? Thanks

I love my dog so much, but he’s been chewing up my shoes, slippers, and even my bags. Some of my stuff is pretty expensive and now ruined. I don’t want to punish him, but I also need him to stop.

How do you actually train a dog to leave your things alone? Any tips would help…I’m desperate here.

My 14 week old puppy had been doing well with crate training during the day and night time for 2 weeks. She was sleeping through the night from 8pm-6am. Now she is not wanting to crate nap in the evenings. She would usually take a nap in her crate before dinner time (wake time about 60-75 min) and one post dinner. Now she is not wanting to do either of her evening naps in the crate and trying to make her seems to amp her up even more and make her difficult for bedtime. She will whine/bark for 45 min, which is a large portion of wheat is supposed to be her nap time. By bedtime she’s been up for 4 hours straight with the exception of a 30 min nap outside her crate before dinner. Resulting in a slightly earlier bedtime and therefore an earlier wake time.

I’m thinking now she’s overtired as she’s only getting about 14.5 hours of sleep now. What do I do?

My dog takes one piece of kibble, walks to the living room, drops it on the floor, eats it slowly, then comes back for the next piece. Every single time. Like he's having a 5 course meal.

I've never seen anything more dramatic in my life.

So tell me is your dog a fast eater, a slow dramatic eater, a beggar, or just straight up picky?

I have a nine week old chocolate lab. Don’t get me wrong, I was completely expecting frequent accidents/accidents in the crate. We are feeding her the same puppy food with the same schedule her breeder followed. No food within three hours of bedtime. We set alarms for every two hours in the night to take her outside.

But EVERY single night and morning, without fail, piles of poop in the crate and she is covered in poop. Every morning we put her in the shower to clean her off and constantly scrubbing out the crate. It’s not a large crate; only big enough for her to fit comfortably and she seems to enjoy it. I took her to the vet yesterday to make sure nothing is wrong given the sheer amount of poop that is happening. Fortunately everything came back normal.

So any advice would be much appreciated! Is this normal?? Because it feels excessive. And I don’t know what more we can do to prevent it from happening.

My puppy turns 7 months in two weeks. For a few months we’ve had a routine.. white noise machine, sleeping music, stuffed Kong, she goes in and then boom nap.

A few nights ago my puppy started to throw tantrums in her crate.. it’s gotten better now as I’ve been diligent with crate games. However, she’s stopped going in on cue. No high value treats would convince her. I need help, I’ve been putting her in the crate myself but I want her to go in when cued.

How long is too long for it to take? Trying to gauge if I'm on track or not.

Had puppy about a week and a half. She is 13 weeks old. Yet to go a day without an accident.

She seems to have got the grasp of pooping outside. Been 4-5 days she she last went in her play pen.

However she will pee outside about 80% of the times but the other 20% she just goes inside her pen.

The thing is she doesn't let us know about needing to go really. Most of the time she goes outside because we watch her.

If she is in the pen she tells us rarely. In the crate she tells us the majority of the time. Her accidents tend to be in the pen but there been a few in the crate.

Is this normal? Is she on track to learn or should she have had some accident free days by now?

I currently am raising my first solo dog who is a 10 month old chocolate lab. He’s incredible, and he does so well normally with our routine. I leave for work at 7 and he either goes to daycare (twice a week) or my mom comes and hangs with him for an hour at 11 and I get home at 3:30.

Every single day I wish I had a wfh job so I could stay with him, and this morning he really drove a stake through my heart because he did not want to go in his crate and he got so upset when I started to put my shoes on to leave. I could tell he wanted me to stay, and it really broke my heart. I feel like I do so much to make up for the long days of being alone but at the same time it has to be so hard for him. I can’t help but feel guilty even though I need to work so we can not be homeless, I just wish he could understand that😩